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Start at p.552 of 671. It is where the Jim Deal deal stuff begins. ANOTHER Jim Deal deal. Under a deep snowfall of previous pages.
Kurt, do they teach snow-jobbing in town-administration curricula? It seems a mark of the beast. Norman did paper long agendas and now we get online e-agendas; with current council members seeming less fit, from less weight training, agenda by agenda.
Interestingly, one aspect of this proposed Deal deal is a new "Jackal Street NW," the new street being, presumably, coincidentally named.
Two new streets; with the pile of paper being unclear whether Deal pays for his streets or whether Ben Dover the Ramsey Taxpayer does. A detail, surely, amid all other 670 pages of fact.
And city utilities are to be extended to the site.
Gee.
Same ambiguity. Who pays?
Do you remember the old and early Ramsey Town Center days, with Bruce Nedegaard having his front man John Feges saying, "The Developer will pay for everything."
It was a fiction then, as likely as if said now, but at least it had a reassuring sound.
A ring, as if true.
So, Kurt and Tim, who pays? It may be that within pages 553, etc. after the below screen captured lead pages the ambiguity gets resolved; but I bet against it and do not want to put in the time being a paper ferret looking for one or two acorns in a desert.
Up front folks, what's the cost and who pays the cost to be the boss? And tell the truth w/o any glide and slide, please. Screencaptures:
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Glide and slide: What about that sentence, second page above (p.553 of 671 pages), the one that says:
Funding Source:
The Applicant is responsible for all costs associated with this request.
Great stuff! Would it not be more assuring if that sentence read, "The Applicant is responsible for all costs associated with this project."
Tim Gladhill could have written it that way. The cost of the "request?" = de minimis. Cost of the project, new roads, extending utilities and embedding utilities - electric, sanitary sewer, water, storm sewer - that stuff? Substantial and it's a shell game between "request" and "project." Ramsey town government being ambiguous that way, amid 671 pages of stuffed stuff? Shouldn't you expect the folks you [or you neighbors] elected to council to demand: The Developer pays ALL the costs?
Isn't that what a council is for? To protect the public interest, the public fisc, from too sweet dealings? Dealings at taxpayer expense?
And what about TIF planning for this hummer? Who pays what, and how much and when taxes generated by the project flow - NOT insignificant questions. Folks at town hall -
How about answers????????????
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That IS the agenda for tomorrow's City Council formal meeting, the one after the work session. Readers liking the questions mulled over above might wish to attend. Will Jim Deal attend, being there to resolve ambiguities? Will his schedule permit that?
Your bet? Over that last uncertainty?